With
less than a week to the FINAL CSI, I’m counting down with my favourite 8
episodes of CSI.
#8) My eighth favourite episode is 11.5 "Targets of
Obsession". In this episode the Biebs (Justin Bieber) returns for the
second time in season 11. Why is it number 8? Because Justin now has a person
vendetta after his last appearance with Nick Stokes and tries to kill him many
times with in the episode. The rivalry between the two of them is hilarious.
Most importantly it is hard to imagine someone that looks like Justin (so cute
and the Bieber haircut) being that bad. And he did great job acting. Oh and at
the end he gets shot. My mom and I were sad and my brother was happy.
Fav quote: Justin: "Ill surrender but only to
Stokes."
#7) My seventh favourite episode is Season 13's "Forget
Me Not". It's Sara's birthday and she is celebrating alone. So she finds
comfort in a guy she previously hooked up with. Then she wakes up in her own
hotel room to find out he's dead. She then tells her co -CSIs about the incident
and some to go to judge her about her infidelity with Grissom, her husband. It
then comes to light that someone went to great lengths in order to frame Sara.
In the end, the man framing her breaks into her house, tries to get her
charged with assault and goes to visit her mother in the hospital. Sara then
breaks into his house and tries to shoot him as he was involved in a previous
case where he killed someone but it was self-deference and he is trying to do
the same with Sara. Little does he know it's a trap and he is arrested. Why
number 7: the suspense! And the end of GSR (Grissom Sara romance) as we learn that
Grissom broke up with Sara and that's why she was seeing someone else. Their
relationship was built up for 7 seasons and they were married for only 3....
the end of an era...
Fav quote: Sara: "Grissom and I are not married
anymore. I'm sure he had my best interest in mind."
#6) The sixth pic: The Pilot. Why? It's the pilot, where it all
started. Back when the CSI's paged each other (I had to ask my mom what the
point of the pager was...now the CSI's text each other). And when Grissom
handed out assignments for crime scenes, now they just show up to the scene.
The episode kicks off with the introduction of Holly Gribbs, who is new to the team.
She goes to her first crime scene with Catherine, a robbery at a convenience
store. While Nick and Warrick are battling to be promoted and the introduction
of Warrick's gambling addiction (he stayed shady throughout the series, I’m
glad he got killed off). Warrick's addiction led to the murder of Gribbs as she
goes back to a crime scene and gets shot, as Warrick was supposed to go with
her. Fun fact: Gribbs was actually killed off because when a test audience as a
test viewed the said they disliked her. She wouldn't have lasted anyway as when
she saw corpses she barfed. We are introduced to the first serial killer of the
series who makes man record an audio suicide and then kills them. He then
steals Grissom's fingerprints. I love the old episodes when the
show was all about science, proving the crime through the evidence as if
they were there when the crime happened. They did multiple experiments that were
the show's focus. Today, the show has shifted and is more trace focused and victim-killer
focused, and the CSI's don't do as many experiments. They were so simple and straightforward.
The newer ones I find are more complicated even for a seasoned CSI watcher like
myself. The channel ABC actually turned down the series because they didn't
think that Americans would understand a show that was so science based.
However, CSI then became the most watched for over a decade in the world. CSIs also
spent a lot of time in the break room together in the early seasons, they
seemed more like a team and had a personal relationship, compared to now that
has faded. Also Catherine's hair is hilariously it looks like a mushroom but
curly and red.
Fav quote: Catherine: “We restore peace of mind. And when you're a
victim, that's everything. Stick with it. At least until you solve your first,
and if after that, you don't feel like King Kong on cocaine, then you can quit.
But if you stay with it, my hand to God, you will never regret it."
#5) Number five features Taylor Swift in season 9's "Turn,
Turn, Turn", it was the first episode of CSI I ever watched because I
figured Taylor Swift would be murdered off (I didn't like Taylor Swift, obvi)
and she was. The episode took place over a year, it all starts with Nick
looking over Taylor's body and then the episode takes place over a year with
Nick visiting the motel where her character lives for multiple times over that
year. Over that year Taylor's character changes her appearance multiple times.
With Taylor's character eventually dying at the end. Why #5? Because it was my
first CSI episode and it taking place over a year is really cool and seeing
TSwift dead was great too. LOL
Fav quote: Haley: “But I told her forensics is just science, you
know? It's what you go to school for and. But you don't look like my chem
teacher.”
Nick: Thanks, I
think.
#4) My fourth fav is the last episode of csi ever, the season
finale of season 15. The Gate Harbour Killer (Season 15's serial killer) and he kidnap
Julie Finlay (the character I despise the most). Finlay is left alone in
her apartment and is almost killed, leaving her in a vegetative state. (We figure
she is dead because she is not returning for the CSI movie). It is Number 4
because this is the final episode of Nick and the last single episode in the series.
Nick Stokes in recent seasons has become the face of the franchise, in my
opinion, since the departure of Gil Grissom (William Petersen) in Season 9.
When I think of the CSI, Nick Stokes is the first thing that comes to my mind.
With his charming southern accent in addition to being chivalrous, handsome and
a true gentleman, Nick was a true fan favourite especially with the ladies. (I
think that every lady that watches CSI has at one point had a crush on him.)
Nick Stokes represents the emotional heart of the series. Nick also has a
natural empathy when dealing with the crimes he investigates; a quality that is
truly his own. Despite being the true all-American man Nick Stokes would get
emotional under pressure contrasting the male stereotype of not showing
emotion. Nick was also very low-maintenance with little drama in his life and
little need for attention. Nick was the most reliable worker within the crew
especially in the most recent series and was always driven to solve his
cases.With all of his qualities Nick Stokes has become the most loved character
in the series and will be greatly missed.
Fav Quote: Sara: “you know what
Grissom would say, ‘you got to
Go where you can do the best good’.”
#3)
My third favourite episode is season one’s second episode “Cool Change”, the
introduction of Sara Sidle. As Grissom says while the team is in the break room
that he is calling his friend, “Sara Sidle” to which Catherine replies, “Who is
Sara Sidle?” Grissom then says, “she is a CSI from San Francisco” aka the final
piece of the CSI cast. Well, Sara Sidle was originally written in to be a love
interest for Grissom. She comes to town to stand in for Holly Gribbs (see #6)
and she was brought in to look into Warrick’s whereabouts. Sara goes on to eventually
replaces her (she is not hated by the test viewers). Sara in the future becomes
a vital member to the team over the 13ish seasons, she was apart of the main
cast. In her first scene she shows up to a crime scene where Grissom is
investigating a jumper. She enters the crime scene and after a smart remark
about the victim Grissom says, “I don’t even have to turn around, Sara Sidle.”
To which she drops her bag and crosses her arms and says, “It’s me!”. Sara is
very involved in the investigation into Gribb’s death. She seems to fit right
in with the team as she takes charges and completes her report on Warrick and
helps with the Gribbs investigation. She does all this while wearing a
not-tacky-at-all brown flare pants, a pink tank top and a tight green sweater.
One of my favourite parts of the episode is when a pager goes off and everyone
checks theirs. This is so funny. The final scene features the whole cast
standing in the parking lot starring at the killer of Gribbs who they caught in
the episode as he is taken away in a police crewser. Why 3? Sara Sidle is introduced
in a dramatic way.
“I don't even have to
turn around. Sara Sidle.”
“It's me.”
#2)
My second favourite episodes is season 7's “Living doll”. The episode is where
we find out about who the miniature killer, Natalie is (the serial killer of
season 7 who builds miniatures of crime scenes before the crime is committed). Natalie
is scared of bleach and kind of looks like me, which is creepy. Ne ways, so she
kidnaps Sara Sidle because Grissom loves Sara and Natalie's only love, her
foster father killed himself and he blames Grissom. So as per usual the CSI
team is a step behind and she kidnaps Sara after Sara comes back to her car
from going to a veggie restaurant with her crime scene kit (weird I know). Also
in this episode one of my favourite characters, Sophia Curtis makes an
appearance she is badass and should have stayed longer. Sara is then abducted by
the miniature killer and placed under a red mustang, like the miniature that
she sent to Grissom the night before it has a motor that makes her hand move
and grip dirt and release it. The mustang was apart of a previous crime scene
that both Sara and Grissom worked, where they showed affection and that is how
the miniature killer got figured out that Sara and Grissom were in a
relationship together. The episode ends with Nick and Warrick arresting the
killer at her home and taking her in for questioning when she goes into a
psychotic break. The final scene features Sara under a red mustang with just
her hand being seen gripping dirt (just like the miniature).
Fav quote: Grissom “[the miniature killer]
is taking away the only person I ever loved.” (Revealing that he loves Sara to
the team.)
#1)
MY FAVORUTIE EPISODE IS SEASON 8’S DEAD DOLL!
This
episode is a continues on from living doll, however there are flashbacks (a CSI
trademark) of how the miniature killer kidnapped Sara and took her out to the
desert. Sara had been transported there in the trunk of the Miniature killer’s
car. However, Sara is able to break out of the trunk by opening the door that
connects the trunk to the back passenger seat, however she is then drugged by Natalie
and put in the back seat. This is so the miniature crime scene can be
completed. In the present the miniature killer still is not talking. So it is
up the CSI’s to figure out where Sara is. It is Nick who discovers a phone
number in the miniature killer’s room for an impound lot for badly damaged
cars—which is the breakthrough clue. This is after he starts crying after
having a flashback to him and Sara having a discussion about when he was buried
alive in season 5 and how she said, “it wasn’t your day to die, when it is your
day, it is your day.” After a really bad rainstorm in the desert Sara almost
drowns from the landslides of water. Sara does eventually escape the car and
starts walking around the dessert as she leaves rocks for the search team to
find her. She uses her shirt as a head tie and a sling for her broken arm (her
shirt was ugly so it is okay that it was sacrificed) and takes a mirror from
the car for protection. She walks in
over 110F heat and it found by Nick after the car lot guy tells the CSIs where
the car was dropped off. And just to creep you out while the CSIs are searching
for Sara they find a body that is not Sara’s. Sara is recused and taken to a hospital
via a helicopter. Why is it at number one? There is never a dull moment in this
episode and it is the final episode that features the miniature killer in
action. Also I love the episodes where the whole team gets together to solve a
case instead of being split up.
Fav Quote: “Sara: Yes, he
was. That's true, Natalie. I lost my father too. I know that Ernie loved you.
He would not have wanted you to do this.”
Natalie: “[whispering]
Ernie loved me more than Grissom could ever love you.”
